As a rule, antiques should not be cleaned. Swords with an attractive age patina will enhance market value--any cleaning not carefully done will detract from the item. The blades of Civil War swords were...
A Basic Guide to Original Civil War Swords A Tiffany sword presented in New Bern, NC, 1862 by Will Gorges The American Civil War years saw scores of types of swords used by both Union and Confederate forces....
A great area for Civil War collecting is uniforms and headgear. As with other fields, you have to either know what you are doing or need to find a good source, since both areas are loaded with replica examples...
In the past few years, there have been HUNDREDS of spurious Civil War Confederate flags produced by a small company in Tennessee. The flags are only meant as display items and are clearly reproductions when...
A very popular area of collecting for Civil War enthusiasts are artillery projectiles. The smallest would probably be case shot, made in lead or iron (the lead case shot is often mistaken for musket balls) and...
An original Civil War era Slave Tag One of the most heavily reproduced items of historical black memorabilia is a "slave tag." Most people do not realize that actual authentic tags were ONLY issued in the...
The collecting of Civil War buttons is a category which can either be included in a general Civil War collection, a military collection, or a collection group all by itself. It can further be broken down by...